They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet.(Childhood diary entry, quoted in To The Is-Land)
I like to see life with its teeth out.
(Letter to John Money, 6 May 1947)
I have discovered that my freedom is within me, and nothing can destroy it.
(Letter to John Money, 3 October 1948, on being committed to Seacliff Hospital)
There is no past, present or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.
(Faces in the Water)
The Southern Cross cuts through my heart instead of through the sky.
(Towards Another Summer, written 1963, published 2007)
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